Shadow & Light : Literature & the Life of Faith

Outstanding Features:

Student Friendly. Concise biographical/critical introductions to readings, with helpful glosses and explanatory footnotes.

Broad in scope. Over 60 selections, comprising short stories, essays, poems, and full-length plays (new in the 2nd edition), including the full text of Hamlet with notes by David Bevington. Selections span literary history, from the Middle Ages to modern poetry, fiction, and drama.

Inclusive. Wide-ranging selections by variety of writers of diverse ethnicity and faith, working from or responding to the full spectrum of the Judeo-Christian tradition

International. Selections from writers on issues of faith from a variety of countries and cultures.

Contributors to the 2nd Edition include: Middle English Lyricists, Shakespeare, Langston Hughes, Madeleine L'Engle, Flannery O'Connor, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Horton Foote, Li-Young Lee, et al.